1. Listen for the hiss. If necessary, turn up your sound settings -- you can usually hear the hiss just before the nade explodes. Cover is absolutely indestructible in this game, and it doesn't "leak" damage -- even a bit of cover that you find while the nade is hissing will help a LOT.

2. Always keep moving. Never ever go prone, ever -- it reduces your reaction time and makes you easier to headshot. Just stand on your feet, and move around. Jump and throw your grenades to get more distance, but don't ever stand still.

3. Stay away from other people. This has to be a healthy balance -- on one hand, you can't lonewolf, but stay far away enough that a nade blast won't kill you and someone else. This is good because it'll make it easy for friendlies to revive you if you go down, and even better for you if friendlies go down -- free point for you when you revive them.

4. Pay attention to your minimap. Look at where people are, look what they're shooting. LIVE inside your minimap. Just constantly get used to pressing N (the key to zoom in and out of the minimap). Press N like a psycho -- learn to get the whole picture of the battlefield. The more intel you have, the more likely you are to avoid those nades.

5. Think what you would do in their shoes. If you're all up on the second floor in Camp Gibraltar Central Camp -- then get up high yourself, set your rockets to the right range, and take 'em out.

6. Rocquettes! You can shoot people behind cover. Look on your minimap, and then try to hit people that are really far away. Remember to right click at what you want to shoot (say, a piece of cover), then increase your distance by a couple of clicks, and then fire. The increased distance means your rockets explode a bit further, and will kill the people behind the cover.

6. Be a nurse. Just run around, and wait for friendlies to die. Trust me, you can earn a lot of points by doing this. Just wait for people to do silly things, get them up, and go elsewhere. At any given time, your team is rife with silly people. Look after them like a mother hen -- fix their mistakes.

7. Don't use a sniper rifle in a standoff. You are rocket bait, and you will be likely nade bait. Also, you can't revive, and other people can't take your kit to revive.

8. Find a buddy, and make a squad with him. Stick with him as close as possible, and you each focus on keeping each other alive. Lock the squad if you have to, and just the two of you focus on keeping each other alive with medic kits. This will improve your situational awareness and your general play -- you'll have to know what you're shooting at, and in addition, where your buddy is -- if he's alive or if he needs a revive.


I guess I went a bit overboard on all that, but the key thing is to outsmart people. Find out what they're doing, look for a pattern, and then exploit that. It's all about who's smarter.